New York Celebrates Clinton, Trump Victories

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters as she arrives to address attendees at her New York presidential primary night rally in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., April 19, 2016.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had just been declared the winner of the New York Democratic Primary – the state she served as U.S. senator for eight years.

“Madam! President!”

“Madam! President!”

Inside New York’s Sheraton Hotel near Times Square, the reverberation was deafening to even the most remote set of ears – behind the ropes cordoning the media, the cameras, and the filing center backstage, down one flight of stairs, and another, to the street below.

For two minutes, an adoring crowd cheered their hometown hero. For a moment, it seemed, she had won it all.

“My, you did something wonderful tonight for America!” declared a triumphant New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to the crowd. "You had one chance, and you know what? You got it right!”

‘We won!' he said.

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“My face hurts from yelling,” said Kelly Kollar, as she exited the hotel ballroom.

Kollar was excited to see Clinton -- a candidate she described as intelligent, qualified, and compassionate -- emerge victorious.

"It’s a little disappointing sometimes feeling like the momentum is behind Bernie, and I think tonight was exciting for me to be able to cheer for Hillary and feel like the momentum was on her side,” she said.

For those that were late to the party, still in line as the celebration continued, a friendly debate emerged between Clinton supporters and less-than-enthusiastic allies.

"I’m not mad at Hillary,” said Clay, a Brooklyn resident originally from Mississippi. "I like Bernie Sanders too, but … I can see them as running mates."

New Yorker Pamela Hamilton attended tonight's Hillary Clinton primary night party and voted for her earlier today in the New York primary, April 19, 2016. (T. Trinh/VOA)

“I think it’s beyond repair,” Yancopoulos said. "The way that he treated her in the debate, the allegations about the campaign financing ... there is no way he is getting on her ticket.”

Nora Presley, an African-American resident from New York chimed in, too.

In her view, the Democratic Party has overcome tough primaries in the past, and will do so again in 2016.

"Hillary ran eight years ago against Barack Obama, and it was nasty,” Presley said. "And then once he became president, he appointed her secretary of state.”

Supporters cheer during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at Hunters Point park, April 18, 2016.

Win or lose, Ben Moe, Yancopoulos’ boyfriend, said Sanders has already done good by moving the debate to the left.

“You have this other candidate, [Sanders], who stands for so much more and who wants to change the entire terms of the game that we’re playing and says, ‘No, we’re not going to let corporations with billions of dollars buy candidates. We’re going to let the people speak.’ That’s direct democracy," Moe said. "That’s what this entire nation is built on.”

A few blocks away...

Outside Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue the scene was hard to miss, as news vans and satellite trucks flanked both sides of the block.

Passersby, tourists and even taxi drivers all slowed to survey the mix of reporters corralled behind steel barriers and policemen standing guard outside.

Directly across the street, a small group of protestors held court in front of a Prada store.